Honest opinion for a soon-to-be New Grad

I am a new grad too! Please see our posts in the new-grad sticky at the beginning of the board. We talk about all this alllll the time

Good luck!

Jen

@ peewe delivery where did u have to move, i think after i graduate i am gonna have to move too, i am looking at texas and nc..Jusy wandering what u encountered.

im in the same situation as you. But im willing to go for med/surg for couple years and do a 6months course in Lbr in order to become a mat nurse

Good for you! I went straight into LD from nursing school. I had heard rumors of med surg being necessary...but I knew from the begining that I wanted LD. I personally don't feel like I am missing out on anything. No, I probably could never float to a med surg floor and be "ok"....but they could never float to my floor either, lol. And, honestly, MOST of the nurses I work with have some level of med surg background but you would never know it. There are plenty of fairly basic things that they can't do or are uncomfortable doing that I do for them. They have been out of it for so long and they have locked themselves into taking care of relatively stable patients and forget the skills they did anyway.

The only thing that seemed like I was really disadvantaged in from the begining was time management. It would have been nice to have more experience in juggling priorities, etc.....but it all worked out in the end. Really, if you can get a job as a new grad...go for it!!!!